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Finding My Exit
When you and the path you have chosen get along just great, it’s hard to know whether your motives are sincere. But when you come across a path to do good, and this path goes against every sinew of your … Continue reading
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Tagged Christian, Christianity, ego, family, friendship, interfaith, intermarried, Jewish, Judaism, nudnik
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Remembrance and Repentance: A Book Review
Bone wet I watch as Council members under rifle dig obediently and the earth opens up to swallow my rabbi and his sons. Mach schnell! I hear in my nightmare… and as I turn to leave, I notice that the … Continue reading
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Tagged Christianity, Dan Hennessy, FFOZ, First Fruits of Zion, holocaust, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Jewish, Judaism, Shoah, Yom HaShoah
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Lancaster’s Galatians: Sermon Two, Influencers, Circumcision, and What is Torah?
No word in the Jewish religion is so indefinable and yet so indispensable as the word Torah. Torah is the most comprehensive term for the substance of Judaism. Torah is Teaching. Torah is Law. No one can hope to achieve … Continue reading
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Tagged Christian, D Thomas Lancaster, Galatians, gospels, Jesus, Jewish, Paul, The Holy Epistle to the Galatians, Torah
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Beckoning the God of Peace
Prepare yourself with this meditation, and when you feel anger overcoming you, run through it in your mind: Know that all that befalls you comes from a single Source, that there is nothing outside of that Oneness to be blamed … Continue reading
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Tagged anger, Christian, God, insult, Jesus, Jewish, lashon hara, peace, slander
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Mishpatim: Law and Spirit
There was once a Jewish girl who stopped in Israel on her way to India to seek spirituality. Friends suggested that she go to Neve Yerushalayim to take a class and give Judaism one last shot before seeking other pathways … Continue reading
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Tagged Acts 15, Christianity, Jesus, Jewish, Judaism, Mishpatim, spirituality, Torah, Torah Portion
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Yitro: Walking with Israel
On the third new moon after the Israelites had gone forth from the land of Egypt, on that very day, they entered the wilderness of Sinai. Having journeyed from Rephidim, they entered the wilderness of Sinai and encamped in the … Continue reading
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Tagged forgiveness, halachah, Israel, Jewish, Torah, Torah Portion, understanding, Yitro
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The Moshiach and the Rabbis
In his sefer Shem Olam, the Chofetz Chaim quotes an insightful comment which he heard from Rebbe Yitzchok Isaac from Suvalk. Here, and in the Gemara Avoda Zara (27a) we cite the verse from Kohelles (10:8): “The one who breaks … Continue reading
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Tagged Judaism, Jesus, FFOZ, Messiah, Jewish, Yeshua, Moshiach, rabbinic, VOD, Jordan Levy
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An Invitation to Keruv
Though there are an estimated 175,000 to 250,000 Messianic Jews in the U.S. and 350,000 worldwide, according to various counts, they are a tiny minority in Israel — just 10,000-20,000 people by some estimates — but growing, according to both … Continue reading
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Tagged boaz michael, Christianity, Evangelical Christianity, identity, Jewish, Judaism, messianic judaism, One Law, Tsvi Sadan
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Messiah in the Jewish Writings, Part 1
It cannot be said that everything the sages taught about the Messiah was correct. There is the occasional story which seeks to make the Messiah subservient to a certain rabbi (such as in Zohar 1:4b, which has the Messiah trembling … Continue reading
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Tagged God, halachah, Jesus, Jewish, Judaism, Messiah, messianic judaism, Rabbi, Talmud
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Reposted: Missiles Fired on Nuclear Reactor in Dimona
I’m reposting this news item from VirtualJerusalem.com Palestinian terrorists have fired missiles at the Nuclear Reactor in the Israeli city of Dimona. The missiles fell in an open field and did not cause any injuries, nor did it hit the … Continue reading
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Tagged Dimona, Gaza, Hamas, Israel, Jewish, news, Palestinian, terrorism
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